Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska is the co-PI of the project. She is sociologist and cultural scholar, direcotr at the German Historical Institute Warsaw and associate professor at the University of Lodz (currently on leave). Her research interests are Polish and German memory cultures, reception studies, and media histories. She holds a PhD from the University of Lodz, and a habilitation from the University of Warsaw. Among her recent publications is the monograph “Microhistories of Memory. Remediating the Holocaust by Bullets in Postwar Germany” (Berghahn 2023) as well as contributions to “Memory Studies”, “The Public Historian”, and “The German Studies Review”.
Tomasz Załuski is the co-PI of the project. He is an art historian and philosopher. He works as an assistant professor in the Department of Cultural Research at the University of Lodz and at the W. Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. His research interests include modern and contemporary art practices considered in cultural, economic and socio-political contexts, art documentation and art culture archives, memory and historicization in art practices, exhibition history, institutional infrastructures of the field of contemporary visual arts, transnational art networks, and contemporary curatorial strategies. He has published, among others, in “Third Text”, “Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte”, “View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture”.
Zofia Hartman is PhD student it the Project. She holds a Master’s degree in Cultural Studies – Texts of Culture received from the Jagiellonian University. She is also a trained classical musician, specializing in oboe, actively performing in symphonic orchestras in Poland and abroad. A Jewess by origin, connected with the life of the Polish and international Jewish community. She is the author of the book Sugihara’s List (in Polish, Austeria Publishing, 2023), which is the publication of her master’s thesis. Since 2018 she has been working at the Krakow City of Literature Foundation, where she organizes cultural events related to literature. In 2023, Zofia joined the project “Infrastructures of Memory.”
Izabela Paszko is a post-doc researcher in the project. She is cultural historian and social anthropologist, post-doctoral research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw. In November 2023 she defended her doctoral thesis at the Ludwig and Maximilian University of Munich. Between 2020 and 2023 she worked as a researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin in Munich as a member of the INFOCOM project („Man hört, man spricht“ Informal Communication and Information „From Below“ in Nazi Europe). Her research interests are social history, museum studies, anthropology of everyday life.
Agnieszka Rejniak-Majewska is research fellow in the project. She is an art historian and associate professor at the Department of Cultural Research at the University of Lodz. Her research interests comprise modern and contemporary art, art criticism, art historiography, visual culture studies, and museum cultures as part of the contemporary public sphere. In 2019 she received her habilitation from the Jagiellonian University based on her study on the impact of visual reproduction on the concepts of art history and avant-garde art practices in the early 20th century. She published, among others, in „Teksty Drugie“, „Biuletyn Historii Sztuki“, and „Artium Quaestiones“.
Seda Shekoyan is PhD Student in the project. She is an art historian, curator, academic researcher and writer. Her curatorial work, research and writings focus on a wide range of issues surrounding curatorial research and historiography, museum and exhibition studies, museological and conceptual planning, memory and institutional politics. Seda holds a joint Master’s degree in Media Arts Cultures from Danube University Krems, Austria; University of Lodz, Poland; and Aalborg University in Denmark (2015-2017). She was the Director of Fine Arts Department at Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art for two years (2010-2012). Seda is a recipient of professional grants from European Union, European Cultural Foundation, Open Society Institute, Hrant Dink Foundation (Turkey), Al Mamal Foundation of Contemporary Art (Israel/Palestine), Al Balad Residency (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia). Seda Shekoyan is a PhD candidate at the Doctoral School of Humanities of the University of Lodz (Poland)
Juliane Tomann is research fellow in the project. She studied cultural studies in Frankfurt (Oder) and Wroclaw and holds a PhD in history from Freie Universität Berlin. After having worked at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität in Jena and holding a teaching and research fellowship at Princeton University she took up the position of an associate professor for public history at Regensburg University, in 2021. In Regensburg she also serves as member of the scientific management team of the Center for Commemorative Culture and as PI of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies. Her research interests evolve around practices of doing history (historical reenactments, living history performances) and their historical developments as well as the (re)production and (re)appropriation of post-industrial spaces and landscapes. Furthermore she is interested in the theory of (digital) public history. Her work was published amongst oters in The Public Historian, International Public History, Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft and Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte.
Infrastructures of Memory 